Hello, The Midnight Beast. What did your teachers say about you at parents’ evenings?

STEF: “I remember getting ‘He’s a hardworking little man’ on one of my teachers’ reports. But it didn’t really say anything else – that was it. That was my drama teacher.”

ASH: “I think my parents once came back and they’d had ‘Your kid smiles a lot’. But that sounds creepy, doesn’t it? Nothing about my grades or anything – just, like, ‘He’s very smiley’.”

DRU: “My teachers always said to my parents that I had ‘verbal diarrhoea’. I would just sit there and chat.”

If you were trapped in a toilet with no means of escape, who would you call for help?

DRU: “Out of each other, or just anyone? I recently got married, so I’d just call my wife and get her to get me out.”

ASH: “I was thinking my girlfriend’s dad, who’s a fireman – because he’d have all the equipment, right? I’d like him to rescue me and carry me out of the toilet.”

STEF: “Practical. That’s nice. I’d probably… Out of the two of you guys, I feel like you [Dru] would be more practical with a lock, and I don’t know why.”

DRU: “Big time. Thank you.”

ASH: “Yeah, I don’t know locks.”

STEF: “I think he’s better at trouble-solving than you.”

DRU: “He’s going to hate that. He’s already seething!”

If the human race ran out of conventional food, but discovered a way of transforming music into edible pellets and had to eat them in order to survive, what would the music of The Midnight Beast taste like and how nutritious would it be?

DRU: “Probably not very nutritious. I imagine our food pellets would be quite sour.”

ASH: “Yeah, I feel like it would be quite a muddy taste. Do you know what I mean? Like, ‘I didn’t enjoy that whatsoever’.”

STEF: “Quite hard to digest. Because, like, no-one ever can.”

DRU: “It’d be quite hard – it would be quite a hard texture.”

ASH: “So what would we resemble it to? Rocks?”

DRU: “A Tic-Tac?”

STEF: “Minty? Or the texture?”

DRU: “The texture, I mean. Rocks?!”

ASH: “Rocks! Or a piece of rock, where it looks lovely on the outside, but you bite it and it could break your teeth.”

STEF: “Nice. Cutting.”

What’s a piece of merch you wish you could sell but think might be too strange?

ASH: “You [Dru] had a thong at one point, didn’t you?”

DRU: “My silky thong.”

STEF: “That was good. Never took off.”

DRU: “Too expensive to make.”

STEF: “We did try to do condoms for a while, because JLS were doing them and we were trying to do a spoof of it. But it was very expensive.”

STEF: “And that got rejected by a lot of places. So that would be the best merch, wouldn’t it?”

What would you have put on the condom wrapper?

DRU: “Just our faces.”

STEF: “‘Use your head before you go to bed’, right? ‘One up the—’ No. Not that.”

ASH: “One up the where?”

STEF: “No, that’s for the educational video.”

When was the last time you used a kitchen utensil in an unorthodox way?

ASH: “Wow, why do I take that as a sexual thing? Why is that…? Like, a spoon…”

Nobody else has taken it as a sexual thing, but feel free to go with that if you want.

ASH: “No, I’ve never used a spoon for anything apart from eating yogurt.”

DRU: “I tried to use the handle of a spoon to push a cork into a bottle of wine. That’s as unconventional as I’ve got recently.”

STEF: “Did that work?”

DRU: “No, I got a lot of wine spilt. Well, it kind of worked, but the more the cork went in, it kind of came out the sides. And the cork broke. So lesson learned.”

STEF: “I, for some reason— I don’t know what was going on, but I was in a very deep conversation with my friend, and I put the sieve on the hob. I think I thought that it was meant to go there. And it melted.”

ASH: “I’ve got a story. I don’t know whether it will apply to this. We were once at Edinburgh Festival, which was last year, and we were using a GoPro to film everything. And there was a weird smell, weren’t there? And we were like, ‘What’s that smell?’ And we went into the kitchen, and the microwave was on, and we were like, ‘What’s in there?’ We opened it up, and there was a GoPro. He [Stef] had gone and put it in there, on his lack of sleep—”

STEF: “I was trying to get a shot with it! I thought it would be sick if it just revolves, and then you open it. And I forgot that a microwave heats stuff up.”

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